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Our'World · July 2026

The Front Page · Ironman

Podium in sight — then his bike died, so he ran it barefoot

Ale Motta was racing for a place on the podium in Zurich when his tyre blew with three kilometres of cycling to go. What he did next is the best story of the summer.

A lone triathlete swimming through open water at an Ironman race Ale Motta
An Ironman swallows a 3.8km swim, a 180km bike and a full marathon. Ale (inset) came for the podium. — The Rania Post

Dispatch · Nairobi

The Nairobi skyline rising above Karura forest
Nairobi. — The Rania Post

Two of ours, colliding on the equator

Miora and Saiff — two completely different chapters of the same strange book — are meeting up to party in Nairobi. This, if we're honest, is the entire point of us.

Markets

Launch Africa returns the cash

Eleven exits, a 6.5x on Flutterwave, and — the rare part — real money back in investors' pockets. The answer to two years of "African tech is a mirage."